For the second time in as many days (I'm getting worried), I agree with adios. It undermines liberal arguments about feminism and sexism and all that stuff to turn around and say "Ann Coulter is a man". There are plenty of more relevant qualities that a moron like her should be attacked on.

Never understood the attacks on Coulter's appearance when her statements are plenty ugly. Besides, she is likely at least 50th percentile for her age group.

Agreed. The only people whose appearances should be made fun of are conservative dough boys complaining about liberals just doing X for the sex when it's obvious the dough boys are just angry that anyone's having sex, conservative dough boys who complain about the decline of masculinity, and also Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell.

Edit: Oh and white supremacists whose appearances prove the opposite.

I actually gained a bit of respect for Cruz when he said the whole "vote your concience" thing only to promptly lose it when he bent the knee.

What i wish government did more of is work on smaller initiatives in which long term effects are more predictable and costs are comparatively lower.

For example, instead of making promises like free college or UBI, start with something small such as universal free lunches for public k-12 students.

The costs, both current and future, are known. The policy will not affect the demand curve and it is virtually impossible to abuse. While there is Republican opposition to this program, there isnt total consensus opposition amongst the conservative base.

Stack Overflow (hugely important resource website for programmers, kinda like quora for programming questions) published their yearly developer survey today, which usually has some good insights about the tech industry. As for things that relate to politics, this year has:

- women make up 7.6% of respondents (up from 5.8% last year! progress!)

- comparing jobs held by men and women, women were most represented among common/typical jobs (graphic design/web developer) compared to more specialized/esoteric jobs (sysadmin, embedded programmer, database admin) - I may have worded this poorly, if your reaction to that is "duh that's why those jobs are more common", what I mean is that women make up a larger share of those jobs than the more specialized ones

- for the first time, they asked about parents' education level; 64% of developers had parents with degrees (as this is an international survey, I'm curious how this breaks down between countries)

- scrolling way down a bit you get to "Do you value diversity in the workplace?" - white men were the WOAT with only 60.5% saying agree/strongly agree (white women = 80.7%) (to be fair to white people, men in general were the WOAT, with white people having the largest disparity between men and women, a few other ethnicities scoring in just the 65% range with men, and black men scoring the highest among men at 75%)

Mah Peealrzzz! (says the guy who enthusiastically voted for the pussy-grabber)

Ann Coulter is a despicable monster who has said the worst things about anyone and everyone. She doesn't deserve basic human respect.

Yeah that's the subtext of the bit. White guys who think they're under attack are idiots.

They do things like that already.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-singl...ol-lunch#50831

What does Paul Ryan think about free lunch?

2010? You'll recall that was a narrow window when Democrats controlled the House, Senate and Executive.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2010/h603

Republicans voted against this bill 153 to 17 in the House.

Adios made a name for himself being a horrible woman hater, anything he says about women is suspect.

It's kinda spooky how fast he turned. I feel like the Trump campaign must have showed him some secret data that they actually had some reasonable path to victory, and that Trump would basically end him if not have him killed at some point if he didn't supplicate himself immediately.

The conspiracy nut in me still wonders if they didn't show him some kind of hacked vote-flipping abilities in the rust-belt. Based mostly on the weird statistical anomalies that have never been explained.

One of the hardest things to find is any details whatsoever on the Wisconsin recount. That story just dropped completely out of right-wing, MSM or left-wing media as soon as it became obvious the vote counts were roughly the same. Does anyone know if they hand-counted the paper ballots, or if they just trusted the machine counts at the precinct level? I heard they weren't even looking at the paper ballots.

What's spooky is that I think Michigan and PA - there weren't paper ballots for a lot of the precincts. Really no way to ever be sure the system wasn't hacked by some self-destroying program.

Despite my paranoid concerns - I put a low probability that this stuff is happening now. But give it 4 years after some lone gunman mows down 100 people in a mega-church, initiating the GREAT PURGE of all Trump/Bannon's enemies in govt... scary stuff.

First order of business - clean up voting irregularities and institute uniform national standards - with all vote counting to be overseen by the feds of course.

Good post microbet.

One of the problems with going for small achievable and predictable legislation is that it just doesnt play as well as grandiose proclamations during election time.

There really is very little difference between adult elections and middle school elections.

A quick perusal of basically any movie or TV thread in OOT should make it clear that the audience is not just old dudes whose local adult bookstore closed. There's a large swath of men, maybe a majority, who expect to be titillated basically 24/7. I remember an interview with the Game of Thrones showrunners early on where they talked about the need for sexposition scenes - that super important monologue where Littlefinger explains his backstory and motivations for the entire season? Better overlay it with some hot prostitutes ****ing, or half your audience will have switched over to their pornhub apps before he's halfway done.

Pornhub has an app?

you can jack off to your phone now

Trump lawyers send cease & desist order to 17 year old girl who made a simple web game where you punch Trump with kitten paws

Grabbed by a pussy?!?

Don't go to trumpscratch.com at work

Also they should tell you earlier in the article that she changed the url.

Cruz had two or three billionaire donors, Mercer being one who were Cruz’s big sugar daddies. He tried to play the NeverTrump stalwart but since his big donors were much more nutzo conservative opportunists than institutional party ideologues they voiced their displeasure and Cruz knew where the money was, so rolled over quicker than a dog.

Right - that makes sense.

I think lawyers who send letters like this should face disbarment or be required to retake the bar exam. The permissible scope of criticism/satire/parody of public figures is vast. What the hell is Trump going to do, sue? Other than the fact that the girl/woman could have her pick of top lawyers willing to work pro bono, CA has a strong SLAPP law (where the plaintiff in free speech case has to pay the other sides' attorneys fees if they lose the motion, which has to be filed within 60 days of the complaint). The idea of a sitting president trying to enforce a trademark in his name is laughable.

I'm pretty sure a well-funded effort could get many TRUMP trademarks canceled for various and sundry reasons, among them fraud and lack of quality control. I'd have to check up on public servant surname exceptions, but I'm pretty sure Obama couldn't trademark OBAMA for like anything, even something like Obama brand paper towels. I'm tempted to register TRUMP for anal lube and claim political speech/comment when they file an opposition to registration. (Actually, they could likely prevent registration, as you need permission and secondary meaning for surname registrations, but it's almost certain that they couldn't prevent the use of TRUMP as an unregistered brand name for anal lube. And the press would be sweet, so you'd make a ton and probably have to sell it in 55 gallon drums.

WTF

i know the fbi has a lot on its plate right now but i hope they're investigating the people viewing those items on amazon